

You don’t need to specify settings for this “ Save” action as defaults are okay for thing we are doing. Then select the action “ Save” and click on the center icon with an arrow to add the action to the right hand pane. To add the “ Save” action, expand the “ Save & Export” menu from the same dialog.

To make this process fully automated, we will have to add one more action, i.e. On the same dialog, you can set your page-range and appearance options as required.Īfter setting your watermark, click on the “OK” button to close the dialog box. Make opacity to 20% and select 45 degree angle and select the option “ appear behind page“. In the text field, simply write “ Confidential“. Set the watermark you needįrom the same right hand pane, now click on the button “ Specify Settings” to open a watermark dialog box. From the right hand pane, uncheck the mark from “ Prompt User” as we don’t want user interactions during the process. Then select the action “ Add Watermark” and click on the center icon with an arrow to add the action to the right hand pane. Simply click on the “ folder” icon from the right hand pane of “ Action steps to show” and add your folder by browsing.Īfter adding folder, expand the “ Pages” menu from the left hand pane of “ Choose tools to add“. You will see a “ Create New Action” dialog box then.įrom the new dialog box, first add your folder where you already have placed your PDFs. Now at Action Wizard, click on “ Create New Action…“.

Also make sure you have Action Wizard selected from the tiny context icon at the top right of the Tools menu. Now click on the “ Action Wizard” from the Tools menu, to expand it. Then go to the “ Tools” menu at the right side. In my case, I have created a directory named “ PDFs Batch Process” on my “ Desktop” and placed five PDFs there having multiple pages each. Adding watermark on multiple PDFsīefore starting, place all your PDFs in a single directory, wherever you find suitable. For the sake of simplicity, we will take a look at adding watermarks on multiple PDFs with Action Wizard. You can automate many tasks through this “ Action Wizard“, such as deleting specific pages from 1000s PDFs, adding background to them or inserting page numbers, etc. This is a great feature in Acrobat, especially when you need to work on multiple PDFs. Before going further, please make a backup of your files as it is a good practice and you will also be on your safe side.
